Namespaces

Remember how we set up our original websocket server? For that take a look at the following code:

// [snip]

// Connect the websocket handler to our server
var websocket = require('socket.io')(server);
// Create a handler for incoming websocket connections
websocket.on('UserConnectedEvent', function (socket) {
  console.log("New user connected");
  // Tell others a new user connected
  socket.broadcast.emit('UserConnectedEvent', null);
  // Bind event handler for incoming messages
  socket.on('MessageSentEvent', function (chatData) {
    console.log('Received new chat message');
    // By using the 'broadcast' connector, we will
    // send the message to everyone except the sender.
    socket.broadcast.emit('MessageReceivedEvent', chatData);
  });
});

Here, we simply used the main socket.io instance in order to directly register socket connections and their respective callbacks. However, looking a...